Example sentences of "[pron] [be] set the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | could do , I mean if I was setting the exam I probably would , sort of , you know people know roughly about , I mean they 're all going to drive cars one car . |
| 2 | This created the conditions which were to set the pattern of religious justification for strife for centuries to come , and there is little doubt that nearly all , if not all wars in historic time have had some kind of religion or ‘ god ’ put forward as requiring the human race , or parts of it to engage in bloodshed and misery . |
| 3 | He knew anyway what John was doing , which was setting the fuse . |
| 4 | Remember I asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as you 're setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk I 'd like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets , whatever it might be . |
| 5 | It is a particularly successful version compared with those produced by other pupils in the group who were set the task . |
| 6 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |
| 7 | ‘ No thanks , old man , ’ said Donald , ‘ we 're setting the world to rights here . ’ |
| 8 | Dancers on stage must establish their relationship to each other and to those who enter and also the particular way they are to set the action or dance going by initiating the phrasing , style and expressiveness of the choreographic design to be unfolded . |
| 9 | They could see no reason why he would turn them down and they 're setting the paperwork in motion to put |
| 10 | The Government is fond of pointing out that output rose 20% between 1981 and 1991 , but it is setting the starting point in the trough of a recession to suit itself . |
| 11 | And he 's setting the scene for the Resurrection he 's setting the setting the scene for his triumph out of despair . |